holier-than-thou

常見例句

雙語例句

• Disdain for holier-than-thou lefties who ride their husbands' coat-tails to power and wealth.
  蔑視那些假仁假義的左翼分子，因為她們憑借自己丈夫而得到權力和財富。
• It’s this whole travelling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part.
  這是整個重復一遍又一遍的旅行巡回演出的心態(tài)，不是做好自己的那部分而是做著假仁假義的那部分。
• It annoys me when Philip adopts that holier-than-thou expression with his sons; he forgets that he was just as bad as them when hew as their age.
  菲利普對他兒子們采用偽裝虔誠的表情使我很生氣，他忘了自己在他們那個年紀時也一樣調(diào)皮搗蛋。

權威例句

• "In a country of holier-than-thou's, no one thinks that it's a blatant lie" to cheat on your taxes.
  NPR: In India, Dodging Taxes Is Part Of The Game
• Nor can the Bank's holier-than-thou sermonising be doing much to warm chilly relations with the disgraced finance ministry.
  ECONOMIST: Sermons from the governor The
• And as for the holier-than-thou Europeans, their targets and declarations of principles sound good, say sceptics, but are non-binding.
  ECONOMIST: Smelly China is poised to outdo dirty America
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